“Vacation” touches Jake Luppen’s thoughts on the experience of writing and recording the band’s first full length album. The song was predominately written by the band’s lead singer Jake Luppen (Turntan), who has frequently mentioned that “Vacation” is one of his favorite songs from the album:
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[Verse 1: Jake]
My thoughts are a battlefield of sub-surreal and unfamiliar
Dropping hallucinogens to find serene with oak and cedar
With all that's fell in our laps
You'd think that peace would come and find us
I struggle to see a point of searching for the walls beside us
[Verse 2: Jake]
There's fickle roads that fade
To paths of sage and signs delivered
Smoking grass to find our facts while hopes decay and wither
I'll take out my lighter to see in dull and dark juniper evenings
I'll burn the field to yield a sign of biblical proportion
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
[Bridge: Jake]
I'm not staying anymore
I'm two steps in and two steps over it
I've had my time in present tense
I'm taking vacations where vacancy's permanent
I'll find the inner tranquil there
I hear you've seen her over the mountain
But I'm not standing anymore
I'll vacate my body and find a direction
I'll vacate my body and find a direction
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
Your friends are all waiting
Your friends are all waiting for you, love
[Outro: Jake, with Nathan & Whistler]
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
Ba-bah you said you wanted to
Ba-bah you're finally coming to
vacation was written by Lupin & brotherkenzie & Whistler Isaiah & Mono Moon & Hippo Campus.
vacation was produced by BJ Burton.
Hippo Campus released vacation on Fri Feb 24 2017.
I think “Vacation” is just one of my favorites, just because I can really pinpoint exactly where that comes from. I don’t even know how to describe it. The difficulties that we’ve undergone like with personal relationships in the band, so I think that was something that was very therapeutic and nece...
According to a reddit AMA with the boys of Hippo Campus, this is indeed true: